Iowa-class Battleships had some serious firepower.
Still, the Japanese Yamato and Musashi were bigger.
Carriers ruled the waves though…. Mahan’s “battleship supremacy” was doomed by air power, as Billy Mitchell proved.
Agree. When this story occurred (before the battle of the Philipine Sea -The Mariana Turkey Shoot-), the US was already winning the war. But it shows what would have happened if Japan had tried to fight a surface battle.